bad error message

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:43:09 -0800


> I  looked at ml.lex and I think I understsand the bug in ml.lex.  The problem
> is that {ws} matches the empty string, hence the lexer switches to  from  the
> <S> state to the <F> state.  Then in the <F> state only the final rule works.
> 
> The rule on page 4 says you must have at least 1 `formatting  characters'  to
> go into this state.

Agreed.  I checked in a fix.